Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-13

Ing, the blanks to be filled by the doctor 10 charge
Diseases OF Throat AID Chest.
DR.. f. Carroll Morgan, In charge.
Dr. I. Archibald Taylor, DIR. F. Clinton Fernald,
and Dr. Frank L. Chim3erin Assistants
Wednesday ana Saturday from i to pm.
E-Return this card when well..ga
Reg. No.................... Case No.............
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Patients must return on each Wedns day and sat.
urday at pm. until discharged, otherwise they
VIII forfeit the benefit oI the di5pensary.
BRING TINS Card with you, and bring Bottles for
medicine.
surgery cases are treated Wednesdays and Sat
urdays, froIn to p.n, DR.. j. Ford Thompson be-
Ing In charge, with DIS. ii. NJ. cults and L. l..
Friedrich assistants. General diseases are
treated Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 to 3 d. m by
Dr. VIM. Lee, assisted by Dr. VIM. K Butler. Dis
eases Oh the eye and ear are treated Tuesdays and
Fridays, from To = pm. by Dr. swan II. Burnett.
Diseases oil women, Mondays and Thursdays. from
10 pm, By Dr.GeO. Woodruff Johnston, assisted
Dy Dr. Richard 5. Ill., Diseases OF children, Mon
days and Thursdays, from to PIN, by Dr. g. L.
Magruaer. assisted by Drs. A. A. snyder and
Llewellyn Eliot.
The resident physician, DR.. j. j. McKone, or his
assistant, DR.. Chas. K0oueS, Is always present at
tne hospital, and have their hands full receiving
applicants or attending TO emergency cases. In
audlti0h TO the attending physicians and resident
physicians there Is consulting board compose OF
jas. T. Morgan, A. Y. P. Garnett, and d. W. Prem
tisS. There is also matrOn who LOOKS after the
comfort OF female patients.
SCENES AT THE HOSPITAL
There is considerable hustle about the hospital
when service is about to begin. It is a dismal
sort OF hustle, full Of suggestions OF misery.
There is little laughter except that which may
break forth now and then from group OF medical
students, VINO attend the service and laugh and
joke In very Knowing way. In the Office, on the
looks down upon the desk OF the doctor in charge
ana seems TO have grim satisfaction i'll observ-
Ing the PHYSICAL wrecks that pass in and Out, some
OF them, like Itself, very nearly run down. In 4
room at the rear OF the oicc there are Two cots,
ready for cases OF efntrgency-SoIne man, PERHAPS
mangled In an accident, ShOl in q street affriy
But as the patients come WITH their tickets they
are shown into hallway upstairs and wait their
turn 10 be called In by the doctor. There are in
urn anu nnpng Old people, men with band lged
hnDS, Old turDanned aUlttes with "mi,erie," in
their back, younger peOple-men, women, boys,
ana glriSman bearing some MARX OF physical SUI
Ierlng. The shabby attire OF many OF the appll-
cants betrays their poverty. Occasionally there
VIII be cOmely-lOoking girl, attired neatly and
taStelully.
PATIENTS WHO CAN PAY.
"When one comes who we think Is able to pay
for medical attendance said the resident
physician TO The STAR reporter, "we put an inter-
rogation mark on the card and the doctor ques-
lions her further. II we still have doubts we
require the applicant to bring from some RESPONSE
bic person certificate that he or she is unable to
pay for medical attendance. Some of the girls Won
Two or three dollars week, and who have to help.
out OF their scanty earnings. TO support a family.
vi course IL Is out OF the question Tor them to pay
for their attendance. Did you notice that we'll
dressed woman VINO came into the Office a while
ago? When she went to the doctor she stated
that she was in great hurry, as she had Jeff
her shop fun OF customers and wanted To
get back She Is dressmaker, doing
prosperous business. The doctor asked her
why she came here and she laughed and said She
wanted him TO attend TO her case and Thought she
might as well come here. He questioned her as to
and yapn Inns
Will not receive treatment here. The dispensary
IL intended for the poor, for persons are una
PIE 10 bear the expense Of medical attendance.
HOW Is the Institution supported? Well, we get
500 month from the District out or the poor
Iund. That is all We receive from public funds
ana, OF course, tnat does not pay expenses. 1he
remainder Is made up by private subscription
Some o. the leading physicians In the city give
their time twice week. The poor people that
come TO them receive the same treatment and the
benefit OF the same skill, experience and inteii-
gence as the weii-tO-do Patients who go 10 the doe
tors private Office. am speaking OF the dis
pensafy cases In emergency Cases, or course no
distinction Is made between those who are able TO
pay and those who are not. man is injured in
the street OF fails with sunstroHe. The police
patrOi-Wagon brings him here and he receives i'm
mediate attention. The resident physicians are
here ready for such cases, and IL necessary we send
luz one Oh the physicians OF the attending stat"
IN THE ROOM WITH THE SURGEON
AS the doctor was talking the throlg in the hall
way upstairs was increasing. The reporter was
1900
the patients were sitting on long beneirs into a
room where surgeon was about to begin his ser
vice. There was another Dhyslcia with him. and
besides, couple or medical students, One nedi-
cal student sat at table near the door ready to
make entries OF the cases as they are brought in
record the doctors diagnosis, il 1t is a new case
and write out prescriptions The cards OF the pa
tienlS are sent In and pied in little stack on the
table. In the center or the large room is a sur
geonS COT. ana curtains are hung about the space
where II stands, so that by drawing the curtains
1T can be entirely divided OFF from the rest OF the
room. rAere are a few chairs, a washstand with
water, towels and SpOngeS and row of Deos on
Inc wall. otherwise the room Is bare OF furniture
CALLING IN THE PATIENTS.
One of the physicians, taking card goes to the
door and calls out the name OF q patient. The
person called comes In. IL 1t is an Old case 1t ia
quickly disposed Of. The physician makes a few
inquiries straight to the point-Ihere is no time
for gOssping-and gives rapid directions TO the
medical student who fills out the prescription
sometime, two Or three SUCH patients arr, ad
mitted at time, and one OF the phySieians at
tends TO them while the surgeon with an assist nt
or Two, may be performing surgical Operation
Denlhd the curtain The Soluble talk outside az
the curtain or chronic invalidS who love 10 de-
scribe their ailments, and the heavy breafhing or
naii-suppressed groans OF the poor woman under
strange medley. But the doctors cannot WaiT for
long stories. They are Kind but firm, and expe-
dite the business OF the hour. One elderly woman
VINO disiocated her shoulder i've weeks before
and has never had surgical attendance Is brourhi
III, ana ner means and cries until she Is placed
under the influence OF an anas,hetic are
pitiable but 40 not interrupt the rapid
execution OF the business OF the hour.
she Is quickly made ready for the surgeons
hands. The skfilful surgeon discovers uiiIckly
that 1t Is an interesting and difficult case as paris
Oh the bone are fractured. SO tie medical students
gather about While he rapidly explains the case
and they stand by. too, and lend u hand when me-
cessary, While he works with firm hands upon the
swollen shoulder. Another case Is that OF A
woman VINO has seyeFa! encysted tumors In the
scalp. She had square Jaw and a determined
look, and sat mottonieSs, but breathing hard and
deep. while the surgeon, with keen Instruments
and removed the troublesome growth. When
three had been removed she remarked: 'sfhat Will
do Tor to-day" The surgeon thought so TOO. Her
head Was bandaged aud she was soon ready 10
leave. Thus q score or more OF cases were dis
posed Of The surgeon inquired: care there any
put on his coat, strobe hastily out OF the building
and was Soo0 driving rapidly away to some other
point where his skill was needed 70 relieve suffer-
Ing.
WAITING FOB THEIR MEDICINE.
The next scene was in room In the rear
fitted up as an apothecarys establishment This
Is In charge OF the druggist Mr.. Fred SOhon 1t Is
large room. On one side are rows OF benches
on the other side Is druggists counter and pre-
scnption case. Behind the counter on shelves are
rows OF jars and bottles labeled with the same
mysterious names that stare down, in white and
gilt letters at the customers in fashionable drug
stores. There will be seated the benches after
the days '.serviees, twenty or thirty OF the pa
tients waiting for their medicine When they
come In they DEPOSIT their prescriptions and their
bottles on the counter. The patients required
tofurnsn their OWE bottles the collection on the
counter Is very unique one. fancy perfuinery